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Two weeks ago we announced a change to Sketch’s licensing. We wrote a blog post that explains it all, so please give that a read. But in short; we’re moving away from the distinction between major and minor versions. In addition, everyone will now receive the same period of updates, no matter when they purchase their license.

Maxim Cramer, an iOS developer shows how anyone can own their app from code to submission, including design. Her talk includes a step-by-step live demo on recreating the Apple News Icon, exporting it, and creating App Store screenshots.

Web designer and developer Marc Andrew has recently published his second guide on Sketch. It’s full of tips and tricks and hands-on tutorials on third-party extensions such as Flinto and Framer to help speed up your workflow.

Compo boosts your workflow by making it easier to work with interface components. With Compo, pressing ⌘ + J is all it takes to turn a text layer into a button or adapt a button to the new label. You can also use it to put existing components in order. You can see examples of how this plugin works here.

Check out this handy plugin for automated and mathematically precise optical adjustments in Sketch. This plugin makes it easy to align layers to visual centers, align edges with overshooting, and scale layers to the same size.

This plugin is a timesaver as it allows you to create different states for visibility and position of layers instead of creating new Artboards. You can also create states for your Symbols and switch between them easily. Learn more in this blog post.

An open-source community driven iOS 10 UI Kit designed by Ramon Gilabert Llop and Carlos Melegrito. You can find this resource and more than 2,000 other free Sketch resources created by the community on Sketch App Sources. Enjoy!

Designer Peter Nowell explains how pixel density works and how it affects your designs. He walks us through the history of displays, how densities have evolved over time and all of the intricacies designers need to consider. This is a must read article.